From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:59:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] arm64: ARMv8 RTSM model (SoC) support
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On Tuesday 18 December 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> After some more thinking, none of these would work for arch/arm since
> vexpress_clk_of_init() is called very early via the time_init() ...
> v2m_dt_timer_init(). On arm64 we rely on the architected timers to be
> always present but this assumption is not valid on arm where clocks
> would need to be initialised early.
> 
> While I'd really like to get rid of the SoC code in arch/arm64, the best
> place I see for the vexpress_clk_of_init() call is still the arch code
> (unless we add #ifdefs in the clk-vexpress.c code).

I think I'd prefer the #ifdef in this case. Ideally, we would get rid
of most of the early init functions in ARM as well, but that is
a different battle for now. Getting the arch/arm64 to look nice
IMHO is more important in this case, and we can fix the 32 bit
version later.

	Arnd